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posted by martyb on Wednesday January 09 2019, @04:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the need-moah-faster-computes dept.

CNet:

it's 2019. I'm at CES, and VR is an idea gathering dust for all the wrong reasons, lost in a sea of strange peripherals and pipe dreams. Self-contained VR devices, like Oculus Quest and the newly announced HTC Vive Cosmos, are en route, but it feels too little, too late. VR has lost the attention of mainstream audiences.

In 2019, VR is a sideshow in a theme park, a marketing stunt, a slide in a PR powerpoint presentation, a niche hobby for people locked in rooms with a ton of money to spend, and -- worse -- no one seems to know what direction we're headed in, or even what virtual reality should be.

TFA cites motion sickness as a continuing issue, one of the same reasons VR didn't catch on 20 years ago. What will it take for VR to finally realize the potential everyone keeps believing it has?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @07:13AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @07:13AM (#784011)

    VR hentai is already a thing, and it even integrates with onaholes and related accessories.

    Yet few people buy it, because imagination is free.

  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:35AM (6 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:35AM (#784045)

    VR hentai is already a thing, and it even integrates with onaholes

    I dont know what onaholes are, but that set my imagination running.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:14PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @03:14PM (#784130)

      Literally "woman-hole."

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:05PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:05PM (#784177)

      Onaholes are penis sheathes, used to aid masterbation. The inner molds differ among models, for differences in stimulation.

      Or as I like to call them, jack-in-the-boxes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:44PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:44PM (#784201)

        Oh, yes I saw that video of a japanese dude in a weird VR masturbation machine.

      • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:50PM

        by Freeman (732) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @05:50PM (#784205) Journal

        I never could understand how anyone would willingly eat at Jack-in-the-Box.

        --
        Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:27PM (#784282)

      To my eternal sorrow, I looked it up. If you're on the fence about doing so—don't.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday January 11 2019, @01:24AM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday January 11 2019, @01:24AM (#784778)

    Problem is that a majority of people don't really want VR hentai, they'd prefer real Briana Banks, or failing that as-close-to-real VR Briana Banks.